Not Yours to Give

[Nystul]

The interesting thing is how much power the federal government has assumed in the nearly 2 centuries since that speech (assuming Crockett ever actually made it), and how little of that power is derived from Constitutional amendments. How often do you hear of a law being revoked in the courts on the simple basis that Congress did not have the powers to pass it, or it violates amendment X? The courts are more likely to kill a law by inventing individual rights and pretending they are in the Constitution than by actually limiting the Congress to the powers it has been granted explicitly.